Didelphinae Gray, 1821

Voss, Robert S., 2022, An Annotated Checklist Of Recent Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (455), pp. 1-77 : 10

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.455.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7161397
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scientific name	Didelphinae Gray, 1821
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Subfamily Didelphinae Gray, 1821 View in CoL

TYPE GENUS: Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758 .

SYNONYMS: Chironectinae Hershkovitz, 1997; Lutreolininae Hershkovitz, 1997.

REMARKS: See Voss and Jansa (2009: 100) for a morphological diagnosis. Monophyly of the nominotypical subfamily has been consistently and strongly supported by phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence datasets (e.g., Voss and Jansa, 2009; Amador and Giannini, 2016).

References

Hershkovitz, P. 1997. Composition of the family Didelphidae Gray, 1821 (Didelphoidea: Marsupialia), with a review of the morphology and behavior of the included four-eyed opossums of the genus Philander Tiedemann, 1808. Fieldiana Zoology (new ser.) 86: i - iv, 1 - 103.